Month: June 2023

(This post is a continuation of The Dutch Connection: How Seventeenth Century Dutch Privateers Became Barbary Corsairs in North Africa[…]

The idea that Dutch privateers should have ended up among the Barbary corsairs of North Africa may at first seem[…]

Barbary corsairs weren’t just pirates. They were part of a larger enterprise. There was a religious element to that enterprise:[…]